Apatheist is a term I heard some time ago and decided that is what I am.
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So this is a separate cleaning beg fest over and above the toilet cleaning list? What, the church is still dirty because people don't do their weekly cleaning well enough? They don't get around those toilet bowls with the toothbrush and the bleach?
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If the Twin Falls temple is by appointment only, then why do my TBM sister and B-i-l work there two full days a week? do they just sit there waiting for someone to show up for their appointment? They don't have sessions until they have a full house? Can someone explain this appointment only deal?
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I hope not! I was mormon before I was born, going back to Nauvoo, unfortunately. Grew up in a small Idaho town where over 50% were LDS. How I wish I'd never been raised mormon because my grown kids and grandkids are slaves to it now and think I am such a lost cause. That pains me more than anything else.
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I hope the board will be online all weekend even if it is the first Sunday of the month. What gems will we hear from the great and spacious building???
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My TBm sister will not ever have a garage sale even though she has lots of crap she needs to get rid of. She thinks it should only be donated to D.I. My mother was always trying to give stuff to them that was garbage and I told her they would just throw it out. She thought they had a whole bunch of people who would refurbish non-working appliances and furniture. I told her they don't and don'
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I understand how it can happen...I saw it happen to my niece. She confided in me years ago how she didn't believe in the church and how she had tried to do so. She married another inactive member and we all had some spirited conversations about the stupid doctrines of the mormon church. Then they moved to Utah to an area where 3 of her TBM siblings lived and by now they had a few kids. Low an
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I sent my letter straight to SLC. I didn't know who my bishop was since I resigned after I moved out of my ward of 27 years. I got a letter from the new guy who had never laid eyes on me and it was kinda funny. He said he was disappointed, blah blah blah but that he would "allow" me to resign. Uh-huh....anyhow, after about 2 weeks, I called and left Greg Dodge a message asking why
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The Equal Rights Amendment fight during the 70's. I was a devout member living in St. Louis while my DH was in graduate school. Relief Society was held during the week and for several weeks our only activity was working on protest signs against the ERA that was set to be voted on in IL soon. The vitriol surrounding that amendment and the horrors it would bring on humanity became rather silly a
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I know that we can all relate to his column today: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/51498430-80/church-holtz-kirby-class.html.csp
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Well, I'll be damned...there WAS something next!
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I have an extended family member who married late in life and longed to have a child. At age 40, she got her wish, a lovely little girl. That child never had a chance! She was not homeschooled, but went to private schools. She was never allowed to get dirty, or misbehave. She was never allowed to watch TV. She was always being educated 24/7 in some way. Had to learn the violin, foreign langu
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OMG....but not a penny of tithing money went to pay for this, right?
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Raising my kids to be good morgots. They are so entrenched now, I doubt they will ever leave.
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Please, please tell me this is in the CHI. I am trying desperately to stop my mother who is 91, dementia, nearly blind, etc. from asking me to pay her tithing again. If I could have a clear reason why she doesn't need to, I think I could convince her she will still be ok in Gods eyes if she doesn't give that cult any more of her social security money.
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I find myself in a conundrum about this very issue. I am 61 years old (there, I've said it!) I was temple married for 23 years to a man who then came out as a gay man. Divorced. I rebound married a year later (big mistake) and it lasted 7 months. divorced. Left the church. Now, 16 years after the last divorce, I find myself engaged to a man several years younger than me. We've been living to
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Isn't it funny that they actually called it a 2 1/2 minute talk? Like it was some sort of timed thing and if you went over something bad would happen? I remember giving them quite a few times. We had a book with gems of thoughts you could basically read and the congregation would think you were so smart! haha
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My stigma was "divorced woman". No kidding....I kept trying to go to church for a few years after the divorce. Ok, one they didn't know what to say to me since my divorce was from a man who came out as a gay man. They all knew him and just couldnt' believe it was possible. But, the thing I noticed the most was how the women seemed to hold onto their husbands whenever any conversat
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Oh the comments are priceless. People really do hate so many things about mormon stuff, don't they? But, they just keep the seething just below the surface. No wonder Utah is the prozac capital of the world!
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this weekend? Always....hehehe
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My dear fiance' and I both have demanding jobs and the work week is always hectic and exhausting. So when the weekend comes around, I marvel at how different they are now compared to my former life as a mormon. Saturday mornings--sleeping in a little. Having my sweetie come tell me he's made me coffee and giving me a kiss or sometimes joining me back in bed for a little snuggling. Then, coff
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I've always said I would like to come back a few times and experience different things...beautiful, rich, maybe even be a man for awhile to see what all the fuss is about...etc. Honestly, I don't know and don't really worry about any of that anymore. I used to stress about the afterlife a lot and whether I'd make it to the CK. Sheesh.
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Hitting you again? Child abuse? Seems like this changes the whole picture. Can you tell someone what is going on with the hitting?
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people who have their weekends back and a 10% raise in pay!
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And the temple stuff came out when?
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"I bought this covered wagon to use when we have to go back to Jackson County" --my own sister in 1975
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I'm glad all the missionaries are safe. Having said that, My never mo fiance was a bit taken back when the top story on KSL was that fact. He said "they don't seem to care about anyone else being safe as long as the missionaries are ok". It must look strange to outsiders to have so much emphasis placed on one select group of people as the perception seems to be that the rest of the f
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Believe me, I am glad the STUDENTS are rallying around Brandon. The issue I have is how the administration seems to be sending a mixed message on this whole thing.
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The catalyst was my husband of 22 years coming out as a gay man. The way everything was handled, like he needed to repent of his feelings (because he had NOT acted on them). I realized I needed to really look at the religion of my birth to see what it really was all about. As I did that, I found that it was a mile wide and an inch deep. Critical thinking skills kicked in and I was done. The fi
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I got a text message from my ex last night that Brandon was sitting on the BYU bench, not in uniform, but "assisting" the players in some way. Ok, he is still WITH the team, even if he isn't ON the team? BYU must be ok with that, right? I guess I don't get it. It seems like they kinda want him there for the morale of the team while they try to make it to the big dance. Have other
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